Bank Of The West Checking Card Information - Bank Of The West Phishing Scams

Bank Of The West


Date Reported: 8th May 2005	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Bank Of The West Checking Card Information

Apparent Sender:

Bank Of The West

Return Address:

Bank of the West Support < tmcconne@bankofthewest.com >

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://member.bankofthewest-online.com/index.php ?QyMIn=501613416524986954257985442864615876 127779178763299087522818380868570348265142471479 13232&ssl=42522480061319675727298668701125387626 7228638214931&eml=xxx&Llc=2208996907151938295 5142534774086394381298450488&jXfm=774398551928 4370775066355705284

Location:

OR, US

Scam number:

aa-454

Comments:

Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Bank Of The West by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.

Bank Of The West never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.

The REAL URL of the spoof website is disguised as "http://seclogin.bankofthewest-online.com/ index.php?".

The spoof website this email links to was not online at time of this report, but variations of the scam which link to working websites are bound to exist, so be wary! The website may have been taken down or disabled by the hosts, but quite often these websites are hosted on the personal computer of the phishers, so may only be online at certain times.

The REAL URL of the spoof website has been chosen to look very similar to the actual Bank Of The West URL. Do not be fooled!

"By this letter we inform you, you must verify your account to given E-Mail. "

Dear Bank Of The West Bank client.
By this letter we inform you, you must verify your account to given E-Mail.

Go to:
http://seclogin.bankofthewest-online. com/index.php?

Differently we cannot inform you about your account.
Thank you for using Bank Of The West!

This e-mail is created by automatically electronic system. Please do not reaply this e-mail.
Thank you for contacting Bank Of The West.

Website:

Spoof website not online at time of report...

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